Street Justice Quotes

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fight back.

Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last.

The thing about Luke Cage that makes him different is - on the surface is he's a hero for hire; Luke Cage wants to get paid. Luke Cage in the comic books is like, 'I'm doing this stuff. It's all well and good, but I gotta make a dollar.'

I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.

If it was up to me, frankly I would be hanging some of the gang leaders from our street lamps.

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.

There are certain rules: If you know somebody did something, you don't just say, 'Ay, po-leece, I know who did it!' it's more like, 'Okay, I'll take care of it.'

I was brought up in the East End, and if a man was inappropriate in a bar, you'd throw your drink over him.

A fellow who squats down on his knees to clean your boots at a café or in the street is bound to be a communist, so why not shoot him right away and be done with it. There is no need for a trial. His guilt is self evident.

I know Chicago cops. They're tough. They have to be. The whole city would explode. It's like a bomb, Chicago.

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Where I come from, once word gets out that you've cooperated with the police, that only makes you a bigger target of criminal violence. That is a dark reality in so many neighborhoods like mine across America. I'm not saying its right, but it's reality.

I feel like me and Batman have a lot in common. Out on the basketball court, I'm a vigilante.

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.

In the 1920's U. S. Marines were periodically sent to Nicaragua to prevent the fiscal protectorate from revolution. The administration was accused of making war on Nicaragua:] We are not making war on Nicaragua any more than a policeman on the street is making war on passers-by.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.

I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

Honestly, what 'Luke Cage' is - it's a hip-hop Western. And you have Luke Cage as the sheriff of Harlem.